, 1887-07-08
TowN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UT
Throughout the City.

Exhibitions In Oneyenne tomorrow.
Though considerable water was used at
the recent fire, there is no danger of an
immediate famine.
P. Fl. Waterman, fine Mackinaw straw
hats at 81 to 81. so. Reduced 25 per cent
for one week only.
There was a rather exciting foot race on
Themes street last evening. The con-
~testants were colored men.
About fifty tracklayers daily arrive
from Omaha and are sent to the front on
the Cheyenne & Northern.
A special material train arrived from
Chugwater over the Cheyenne Il North
ern at 1l:3O o'clock last night.
Cowhick & Whitcomb will occupy the
Draper building on Eddy street during
the sale of their damaged stock.
The rider of a COW pony in a free-for-al
race at Kimball, Neb,, yesterday, was
thrown from the horse and killed.
A pair of confidence men attempted to
work the famous nutshell game in sew
cTal TcSOTIS dDOuI IhC ClbJ JCobCIudJ.
The Wizard Oil concert was interrupt
ed by rain last evening. A large crowd
had assembled TO hear the entertainment.
Mrs. Larsh and Mrs. Hale had charge
of a children's picnic at the fair grounds
yesterday. The affair was a brilliant sue
cess.
On another page of this issue is pub
lished a fine list of insurance companies
represented in this city by Fred w.
Ransom.
Two shots were heard on Warren av
enue last evening. A diligent search by
the police failed to disclose the cause of
the noise.
The parents of a pair of Cheyenne
twins named one Stimuli and the other
Taneous, because they were born at the
same time.
The case of the United States vs.. Saml.
E. Rogers, involving the Seminole oil
placer claim, is still in progress at the
land Office.
Several wagon loads of hungry looking
Missourians passed through the city
yesterday enroute to Oregon and Wash
ington territory.
Ice cream soda forms a most delicious
summer drink. 1t is served with
the pure fruit flavors at Rhodes & Trox-
ellis drug store.
The court room will undoubtedly be
crowded to .morrow to listen to Judge
Peck argue the motion for a new trial in
the Trumble case.
The Fourth was celebrated in grand
style by the soldiers stationed at Fort
Laramie. Athlethic contests and a ball
game were the features of the day.
The output of the Carbon and Rock
Springs coal mines has been greatly dimin-
ished the past month, consequently there
has been a falling off in shipment of
that product.
A well known young bank clerk went
to Denver o~stensibly to spend the Fourth.
He has not yet returned and many of his
friends are beginning to wonder what has
become of him.
Several insurance adjusters arrived on
the various trains Yesterday for the pur
pose of fixing the losses sustained by
Cowhick & Whitcomb and Jno. B.
Thomas in the late fire.
For tricks that are vain and ways that
are dark" or something to that effect, the
heather Chinee is peculiar. A Cheyenne
p~igtailed laundryman nightly wastes his
substance over a roulette table.
Companies A and d of the 7th in
fantry left Fort Laramie yesterday to
travel overland to Camp PilottButtes, via
Cheyenne. The troops at Camp Pilot
Buttes will be transferred to Fort Laramie.
Jas. Cook has received from California
the mounted head of a seal:leopard which
he killed while On the coast last winter.
IL Is a magnificent specimen, the animal
being the most beautiful of nautical
mammals.
In his defense in Judge Lees court
Yesterday Leroy, the horse thief, showed
himself no novice in the law. He cross,
examined Sheriff Sharpless and H. Haas
after the manner of the old style brow
beating lawyer.
The Fourth was celebrated at Glen
ROCK, Albany county, by a prize fight
between two amateurs, Ben. Ashbury
was declared the victor after the thirteenth
round. Marquis of Queensbury rules
governed the contest.
An examination of the city Jail develops
the TACT that while there is practically no
ventilation at all, the sewerage is all that
could be desired. Malicious prisoners
often clog the pipes out of pure, un-
adulterated c~ussedness.
"A splendid line of white and fancy
shirts Just received at